Tomasky: The People Chose Hillary. Now We Need To Stop Trump From Trashing Our Democracy

[highplainsdem]

New column from Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast:

The People Chose Hillary Clinton. Now We Need To Stop Donald Trump From Trashing Our Democracy

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/27/the-people-chose-hillary-clinton-now-we-need-to-stop-donald-trump-from-trashing-our-democracy.html

How did we get here? We have this sudden and broad post-election consensus that a Trump in the White House will be a walking and inherent conflict of interest from day one. The New York Times ran a big story on all this Sunday. Yet pre-election, this topic didn’t get anywhere near the press attention it should have. Trump was never asked, once, about how he’d handle his business interests at any of the three debates. We have strolled our way into a kleptocracy, and most of the media, far from recognizing it and stopping it, have used their machetes to clear the path.

In the end, it’s the Democrats’ fault too. They should have been making more noise about this. Hillary should have. But what’s done is done. The question is what to do now.

I hate to hear myself saying things like the electors shouldn’t vote for the person who did win under the rules. I don’t know if I can quite endorse that, yet. But by all means, these recounts should be pursued—whatever Jill Stein’s motives here, she’s stumbled into doing something right for once. Democrats from Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi on down should be raising every question they can about Trump’s legitimacy and conflicts.

Three simple points. He was not the choice of the people; he prevailed with the help of a foreign power, a power to which he will clearly be indebted; and he tells us straight up that he will do as he pleases with his business and that he is above the law.

The Democrats ought to be able to stand up and oppose that—not in the name of party, but in the name of country. The press ought to, too—not in the name of “liberalism,” but in the name of the values we purport to defend. We are in a crisis. The next few weeks will show us who’s up to recognizing and acting on it.

[cilla4progress]

1. Hear

hear

[2naSalit]

2. Big Fat K&R!!!

[cilla4progress]

3. In response to his discussion about the electoral college

and race...this is what happens when people play tricks to advantage themselves. And when they pursue unethicalimmoral practices like slavery. It catches up with you.

[anamandujano]

4. I only disagree with one point.

"In the end, it’s the Democrats’ fault too. They should have been making more noise about this. Hillary should have."

She called Trump out on everything with no echo from our lazy congress critters. She spoke of his conflict of interests, his ties to Russia. Needless to say, she got no traction from the wh0rish press.

She had to deal with the attacks and smears fired from all parties, obviously including the long time residents of the MSM GOP machine. She bested him on every issue of the campaign and mopped the floor with him in each of the three debates. She led the campaign against worse enemies than we have in the world and navigated it like a more than competent POTUS. She won.

How much more could we have asked of her?

It's nauseating that she now gets the firing squad from the press because Trump cheated and made her look like a loser.

Other than that, Tomasky makes an excellent case.

[NastyRiffraff]

5. Agreed.

Hillary called him out in every single ad, using his own words. She called him out in town halls, in rallies, in the debates. She pointed out the dangers every chance she got. I really can't see how she could have done any more (at least legally!).

But the rest of the article is kickass great.

[anamandujano]

7. 10,000

[KewlKat]

6. Great Stuff! Hope the author is ready for all the hate mails and threats that will surely come his

way.